FactoryCity
I don’t always agree with Umair Haque, a Harvard economist, though many of his ideas resonate with my own experience on the web. And I can imagine that much of his message comes across as rather radical to his audience, so I’ll cut him some slack if he has a tendency to wax revolutionary when he talks about the social web.S (Read More)
A VC
I spent a lot of time on this blog in the past month exhorting everyone to give teaching tools to the neediest public schools. I did that because education is possibly the most important thing we can do for our world and our children.But I also believe the the public school system in this country is badly broken. And it's (Read More)
Submitted by Sethgray:
We get more of what we measure. If we measure consumption we will get more of it. If we measure participation we will get more of that and we might just find we are already far wealthier than we realize, or perhaps far poorer. More importantly if our economy measured different types of value we could focus on designing thin (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
The iPhone. Almost perfect but not quite. Great interface, interesting apps, and that certain Apple je ne sais quoi. Yet a basic feature like copy and paste remains one of the single most requested features. Not that there haven't been attempts. But we just tested a very promising bookmarklet that allows iPhone users to cop (Read More)
The Geek Media
Breathtaking and useful designs happen because the UI has been worked on tirelessly. It takes a real UI Master to understand how to make a terrific user experience on a website. Here are 10 extremely useful principles from some of the brightest minds in the User Interface field.User interfaces (UI) are what separate top-not (Read More)
Submitted by Sethgray:
For next year, compensation for the group’s top 2-3 per cent of staff will be revised to put more emphasis on long-term performance. Under the changes, bonuses in cash and shares will be staggered over a period of three years. The bonuses will also be adjusted to take into account losses as well as profits. (Read More)
: Barack Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya. A confirmation to the effect will now be forthcoming. A Mombasa Mosque Imam has decided to release documents of birth that will indicate Barack Obama was born in Mombasa, given his middle name on the day he was born and blessed by the Imam of the day.”
TechCrunch
We’ve received multiple (if thin) reports that Apple is working on a search engine of some sort. At first glance, the rumors make sense. Apple’s Safari browser has 6-7% market share, and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the standard and iPhone/iPod versions (unlike other browsers, you don̵ (Read More)
: @sethgray can't help but agree that Spotlight technology probably provides the search and indexing algorithm...but doesn't google's experience suggest that the network for processing search requests is at least as important? Not sure I trust apple to run .Mac reliably, much less a search engine.
Unwired View
Not content on having what is quite possibly the best (or is it because it’s the only?) mobile web search application for the iPhone, Google is said to be working on a new feature that will be added to the Google Mobile app for iPhone as early as Friday.According to a report from the New York Times, an updated version (Read More)
Submitted by Monacomediaforum
from YouTube:
Monaco Media Forum 2008
Thursday pm panel
Toby Coppel MD Yahoo! Europe; Denmark West, President, Digital Media, BET Networks; Ira Rubenstein, Executive Vice President, Global Digital Media, Marvel Entertainment; and Frederic Joseph, MD EMEA, VivaKi. (Read More)